Fluid bodies and bodily fluids in premodern Europe : bodies, blood, and tears in literature, theology, and art /

For medieval and early modern thinkers, the apparent solidity of the body only came about through the dynamic interplay of a host of fluidities in constant flux. This interdisciplinary collection of essays, containing chapters from specialists in history, art history, medical history, and literature...

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Tác giả khác: Barbezat, Michael D. (Biên tập viên), Scott, Anne M. (Biên tập viên)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press [2019]
Loạt:Borderlines (Leeds, England)
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvp2n51g
Mục lục:
  • Introduction : bodies, fluidity, and change / Michael David Barbezat and Anne M. Scott
  • Where did Margery Kempe cry? / Anthony Bale
  • Elusive tears : lamentation and impassivity in fifteenth- century passion iconography / Hugh Hudson
  • Catherine's tears : diplomatic corporeality, affective performance, and gender at the sixteenth-century French court / Susan Broomhall
  • Piers Plowman and the blood of brotherhood / Anne M. Scott
  • Performative asceticism and exemplary effluvia : blood, tears, and rapture in fourteenth-century German Dominican literature / Samuel Baudinette
  • "Bloody business:" passions and regulation of sanguinity in William Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear / Karin Sellberg
  • Saintly blood : absence, presence, and the alter Christus / Diana Hiller
  • The treatment of the body in anatomy lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp / Helen Gramotnev
  • Augustine on the flesh of the resurrection body in the De fide et symbolo : origen, Manichaeism, and Augustine's developing thought regarding human physical perfection / Michael David Barbezat